The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
increased to valuation of fs745, ,050, ,696
Against, in 1SS0................. 612, ,318
..S132,772,387
Increase. -. ..............Sl

increased to a valuation Of s745, ,050, ,696
Against, in 1SS0..............--- 612,21S, ,3lo
Increase. ..... ..............Sl32, ,772, 1897
or % per cent. Cotton remains king,
but his sceptre is passing away, 1t now
constitutes only one-third of the South's s
agricultural yield.
Fruit and garden crops have increased
$13, 900 900.
The value of stock has increased in
seven years, $247 ,326, ,34S, or 90 per
cent.
The South's saw-mills and forest pro-
duct establishments have increased in
number 276S; in hands, q ,597; value OF
product, 81, ,582, 137.
In treating the subject of the indus
trial South the term must be extended
beyond the range of manufactures.
Taking in the farm, stock raising
manufactures, minerals and fisheries We
find grand aggregate increase of pro
ducts within six years of S352, u ,1S1
&c per cent. against an increase of popu-
lation of II per cent. During thi :
period the South has advanced in wealth
| 1898, ,104 ,097, or IL per cent. The
assessed value of property per capita
was in 1880 $4,000; in 1887 SI93.35:
increase $32.75.
1 have trespassed long upon your
| time, but feel constrained to refer to
two points touching the question of the
'Industrial South" and our relation to
it and treatment of it hereafter.
Marvellous as the statements made
may appear, the great industrial battle
has just commenced.
/ notified the public men of the great
Northwest and West fairly and frankly
in 1884 that they should no longer enjoy
unquestioned the benefits OF the stream
of immigration, which for fifty years
had been pouring into their borders.
Furthermore, that we possessed richer
soil, richer mines and grander forests
than the North, and should not only
contend for the immigrant, but Offer
better homes to their citizens, who had
already taken up homes in the North
west
Already the people of Iowa, Dakota
and Minnesota are discovering the in
comparable advantages of Louisiana
and the hundreds who have settled il
Southwestern Louisiana are but the
forerunners of the thousands of families
coming.
The South can offer to the world 8!
per cent. of all the arabic land in the
United States, of which there is open tC
settlement 81, 1872 square miles belonging
to the United States government.
We have room for five-fOld the present
population. The immigrant will fine
soil of far greater fertility than in the
West, and an average rainfall One-th;rC
greater than in the best producing grain
areas of this country.
Fifty per cent of this land is covered
with forests, say 239, ,S37,611 acres.
The value of the yellow pine available
in the South, if cut, would equal il
value the total present assessed value
of ali the Southern States, to say moth
ing of the value of the cypress, gum
walnut and other wood sufficient to las
the United States century.
In coal the South has $4,000, 900 acre
contiguous to thousands of square miles
of iron ore.
While we are offering our fertil,
soil, grand forests and rich minerals t.
the citizens of the North, and opening
wide our arms to welcome immigrant
from over the sea, is it not time to con
slider seriously why we should not edu
cate our boys to realize the rich resource
of the South? The press can assist il
securing for these callings the respec
and consideration to which they ar
entitled. The press can aid in MAXIM
industrial training an integral part o
general education; also in securing tn
equipment of institutions wherein tn
boys and girls of Louisiana may acquir
occupations which will enable them t
become self-supporting, and take up tn
work of developing our rich resource
instead of relying forever on others.
The press can help to break down tn
unreasoning prejudice and disinclinatio
for manual labor. Manual schools ar
in operation as a part of the publ
school system in Boston, Toledo, Clevt
land, and partly in operation in Phila
delphia and Chicago.
Every Southern State is up and moy
ing in the direction of the industris
education of her children, by increasin
the facilities of the State institution
established for that object.
We should thoroughly equip our as
ricultural and mechanical college ON
basis to meet all requirements, devot
the institution to the purposes fC
which it was originally designed, an
create an industrial school where ou
girls would have equal advantages i
acquiring the occupations for whic
they are suited.
Many of us came to manhood fndin
our country torn with dissension, il
hillsides and valleys streaming with il
best blood, and its trade and industrie
paralyzed.
The best years of our lives hay
passed witnessing the efforts of our PEI
pie to heal sectional wounds. Ho
different is all things for the boy of tt
South. He comes to manhood, findin
his country at peace with all the worlt
all national questions in process {
peaceful adjustment, his people enjoyin
the benefits of honest government, an
) the pulses of trade and industry throl
bing with healthy vitality everywher
More than that, he finds the eyes of tI
world turned upon the South.
! At last her fertility of soil, va
forests and rich minerals attract tt
capitalist, the skilled artisan and til
: home-seeker. They are coming millioI
strong; not with banners and bayone
or hostile front, but with olive branch,
,, and treasure, equipped with the be
l weapons of science and invention,
plant homes in our valleys, rip open oil
mountains and lay bare the hidden mil
erals.
! What part will our Southern bo,
take in the great industrial battle whic
/, is to be waged on Southern soil an
l which must exert such an inhuent
upon the destinies of the worldi
In this contest he should be taugl
that every blow he strikes is for Il
o honor of his State and the glory of h
: country.
Not only in the arena of divsrsife
; agriculture, improved implements an
a methods to be extended, but the ire
4 age inaugurated in the South less than
!. decade ago, is now to be surpassed |
!. the South giving to the world ches
: American steel and cheap fuel.
. With cheap fuel, iron, steel, wood ar
thorough industrial training, Il
8 Southern boy can achieve the industri
! independence of the South and inve
her with degree of power and glo
beyond the most sanguine dreams of b
a father.
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